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Hace 3 días · CAPTURES. On 19 March, Maj. Charles Magill reported to Gov. Jefferson that Cornwallis had taken custody of 75 wounded Americans. “Return of ordnance, ammunition, and arms, taken at the battle of Guildford, March 15, 1781. Brass Ordnance: Mounted on travelling carriages, with limbers and boxes complete, 4 six-pounders.
Hace 3 días · In retrospect, Butterfield, much like Lord Acton, is perhaps best known for the book he didn’t write – a biography of Charles James Fox. After Butterfield had name-checked Fox in The Whig Interpretation , G. M. Trevelyan ‘decided to make Butterfield put his money where his mouth had been’ (p. 105).
Hace 1 día · Priestley is preaching in front of Charles James Fox who asks "Pray, Doctor, is there such a thing as a Devil?", to which Priestley responds "No" while the devil prepares to attack Priestley from behind. In 1787, 1789, and 1790, Dissenters again tried to repeal the Test and Corporation Acts.
Hace 1 día · This motion was rejected and instead the Foreign Secretary, Charles James Fox, proposed a vote of thanks to Earl St Vincent, "That it appears to this house, that the conduct of the Earl of St. Vincent, in his late naval administration, has added an additional lustre to his exalted character, and is entitled to the approbation of this ...
Hace 3 días · Similarly, the progressive Whig Charles James Fox is misidentified as a ‘radical’ (p. 52). At one point Inglis seems to suggest the existence of a spurious reform act in 1906, between Gladstone’s act of 1884 and the Representation of the People Act of 1918 (p. 77).
Hace 1 día · Jim died on May 2, 2024, his 85th birthday, after an extended illness. He favored Brooks Brothers suits and bow-ties, was a first-rate bridge player, and loved to tell long, funny, drawn-out ...
Hace 3 días · The greatest parliamentary orator since Charles James Fox. Gordon Brown. The astonishing fact is that Bevan’s vision has stood both the test of time and the test of change unimaginable in his day.
